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Jeep Gifts Wrangler Updates to Gladiator

The Truth About Cars

Power 12-way seats are also on the docket, and Jeep engineers insist they can weather the Gladiator’s nearly three feet of water fording capability without fritzing into oblivion. And yes, after the info is downloaded, it can be used in the sticks with no cell service.

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steam/ev hybrid

DIY Electric Car

I''m new to the ev world but my idea was to eleminate the batteries.start with a vw beetle, put a 50 hp or more electric motor kit (sold for 3k to 7.5k). Now instead of batteries arrange the front end to fit a two stroke engine (two strokes are easiest to convert to steam) running a generator head with enough current to power the 50 hp motor.

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Charged Up: The 2024 Dodge Charger is Finally Here

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The internal-combustion engine Mustang seems safe, at least in the short term. The new Hurricane twin-turbo inline six-cylinder engines will be part of the picture, as well. The extra horsepower on the R/T and Scat Pack models come from stage kits that will be standard at launch but will later need to be purchased separately.

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BYD launches $233K Yangwang U9 electric supercar that will smoke a Ferrari and can dance

Baua Electric

Info from China’s MIIT revealed the U7 features over 1,300 hp (960 kW) from four electric motors. BYD claims the new EV is “The most powerful supercar in the pure electric era, surpassing the power performance of the V12 engine. In fact, the SUV made its debut in Europe at the 2024 Geneva Motor Show this week.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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Ford engineers are working with HP to track the driving habits of 100 vehicles used nationwide by HP employees for work and personal commuting. Info Cycle, Palo Alto, California. Fields noted that today’s cars produce a massive amount of data—upwards of 25 gigabytes of information per hour. Fleet insights, US.

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

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These four main kits are now joined by the all-new Modularer Elektrifizierungsbaukasten (“Modular Electric Drive kit”, or MEB), being developed by the Volkswagen brand. A combustion engine is a massive block of metal. Earlier post.) The driver’s space blends in with the rest of the interior; the mobile space in the I.D.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PiPrius : Open Source documentation and kits. This number represents the electric propulsion range of the PHEV before it must depend upon its internal combustion engine for motive power. Recharge a Car, Recharge the Grid, Recharge the Planet Google.org supports PHEV & V2G with [link] project. In English-system (vs. it is in miles.

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